Music Quotes · Page 239

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

— Adam Jones

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

— Abbie Hoffman

If your not listening to music when your working out then you must be doing yoga..

— Kevin McCarty

My music is very diversified. I'll have a rock song then I'll do a ballad.

— Jeremy Camp

Truthfully, the only reason I'd ever want to do music is if it brings people hope.

— Jen Ledger

When all else fails burst out in random song and dance(:

— Sharon

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

— Man Ray

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

— Brian Eno

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

— George Crumb

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n'…

— Steve Winwood

When I'm in my studio, it usually feels like a hassle to actually press all the buttons and make music come out…

— Max Tundra

I studied percussion as a music student, and I didn't have the best of timing, so I could never make it as…

— Lorne Balfe

For me, great jazz records really feel like everyone in the room is playing together in a zone - and all the…

— Benny Cassette

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do…

— Laura Marling

My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's…

— Timothy Simons

The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.

— Camila Alves

I started writing my own symphony. I wrote about a page and a half. My mum and dad took it into music…

— Mark Bonnar

People are used to seeing kids jump around. You know, the target audience, the audience that's spending money on music, like rock…

— Eric Lewis

Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait,…

— Jake Owen

I think that there are all these amazing figures in our history - the Bowies, the Tina Turners, the Chers, the people…

— King Princess

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I…

— Brendan Gleeson

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there…

— Patrick Rothfuss

My dad had records, but only one deck, so Skep used to try and play a song on one deck - the…

— Jme

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my…

— Corey Hart

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

— Nellie McKay

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

— Beck

Theres a song blaring in her headphones that reminds her of the boy who broke her heart.

— Dev

I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.

— Pauline Oliveros

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

— Ringo Starr

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

— Warren Zevon

I'm a musician, and I'm not interested in being in the Houses of Parliament.

— MNEK

Bout to be in music stores everywhere but not yet.

— Mac Miller

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

— Richard Hyung-ki Joo

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

— David Coverdale

Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.

— Alex Gaskarth

I choose to do different songs for different reasons and I measure their success accordingly.

— Jonita Gandhi

For me the visual is just as important as the music.

— Christina Aguilera

“I’m not. I just think you might be reading too much into a musical selection.”

— Gayle Forman

“Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

— Yanni